Habent Quotes

#1. Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
[Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
Noctis habent.]

Ovid

#2. Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

Ernst Junger

#3. Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not

Jules Verne

#4. Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)

Terentianus Maurus

#5. Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."

Terentianus Maurus

#6. You're demonstrating your own skills in a vulnerable way when you draw.

Molly Crabapple

#7. Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical ... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.

Peter Beard

#8. Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Terence McKenna

#10. Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles.

Gavriil Stiharul

#11. Guurl. Tell me. Do you keep your hair this long for religious reasons? Like, will you lose your strength if you cut it?--Terry, a member of the glam squad, to Khloe Richardson

Naima Simone

#12. When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Walter Kaufmann

#13. A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

Mary McCarthy

#14. When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

Patch Adams